[ad. L. exorbitātiōn-em, n. of action f. exorbitāre: see EXORBITATE.] Deviation from the usual path or track: an instance of the same.
a. 1628. Preston, New Covt. (1629), 200. If there be any exorbitation of the lyne, now it is not straight but crooked.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 172. The exorbitation of discipline.
1635. Heywood, Hierarch., I. 12. They are … an exorbitation And bringing out of square.
1847. De Quincey, Wks. (1862), VII. 76. No deliberative body would less have tolerated such philosophic exorbitations from public business than the agora of Athens or the Roman Senate.
